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Her face frowned for a second before she went back to her playful self and rolled her eyes "Geez, did you really just play the dead son card on hed, because I saw the playfulness in her eyes "I think I did"

"Jerk," sheaway a tear I saw her, but I didn’t say anything about it

Zeus paused in front of a fire hydrant and started doing his ‘tiether

Within seconds, Faye was scooping Zeus’ fresh poop into the bag and dancing around the street corner with it "Way to go, you Olyet so excited by what I honestly considered to be the nastiest stuff ever

"Okay, let’s go," she said, walking back toward my house

"Go? Go where?"

"Um, to my boss’s house so I can be an adult and set this shit on fire and watch it burn"

"I thought you were joking about that"

She rolled her eyes "Tristan, I joke about penis size, not about tossing shit on my boss’s porch"

"But why do I need to be included with this? And aren’t we a little…old for these kinds of antics?"

"Yes!" she shouted, her voice cracking "Yes, it’s completely immature of me to want to throw shit at my boss’s house And yes, it’s completely immature of me to think that it willto be pissed off and sad And I can’t be sad because that ht to tell ether with his ex-wife, I realized he’d always had the upper hand, even though I thought I did It means that the asshole allowed me to fall in love with him and trust hiet hurt!" Tears filled her eyes, but she refused to blink because she knew that would make them fall Tears were a for Faye ever wanted to feel eak "But now all I feel is this breaking inside I can literally feel every inch of o tohusband and had a really shitty year I shouldn’t have come to you because it turns out you had an even shittier year, but I didn’t knohat to do! I’ heartbroken

"I mean, ould someone do this?! Why do people fall in love if itthis way? What the fuck is wrong with huet it--it feels good, you know? Being in love, being happy" Her body trembled as the tears fell faster than she could take breaths "But when thatis ripped out fros with it And your heart? It just breaks It breaks and it’s unapologetic It shatters into aat the pieces because all your free will, all the coave up everything for this bullshit thing called love, and now you’re just destroyed"

I was quick to wrap hter We stood on the street corner for a while as she cried and I rested my chin on her head "I think Zeus went to poop in ot to pick it up"

She pulled away and cocked an eyebrow "Really?"

I nodded